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Environment & Health
How Economic Distress Impacts Your Health
Where you live plays a powerful role on your health.
Medicare-for-All Proponents Warn Against Billionaires’ Plan to “Disrupt” Health Care Industry
This is a sharp turn away from a single-payer health care system.
Trump Says Ice Caps Are Healthy, “Setting Records”
Trump insists that ‘the ice caps are at a record level,’ confirming that he's living on a different planet.
Eleven Billion Pieces of Plastic Bring Disease Threat to Coral Reefs
Coral reefs are in danger.
Drowning in Oil: How Trump’s Offshore Drilling Policies Will Impact the US Coastline
Over the next five years, more leases to drill will be sold than at any time in US history.
Diversity in Health Care and Medical Training Saves Lives
Implicit bias can have deadly outcomes for patients.
How to Bring Caring for Kids and Elders (and Other Acts of Love) Into the Economy
It's one of the most concrete representations of love that we have, yet it's extremely undervalued.
Let’s Raise Our Voices to Protect Medicaid for Unemployed People
Imagine telling a laid off employee they won't have Medicaid to fall back on.
Why Climate Change Is Worsening Public Health Problems
Climate change is making communities around the world more vulnerable to ill health.
Doomsday and the Apocalyptic Trump Nuclear War Fighting Doctrine
Trump seeks to deploy “more usable” nuclear weapons.